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Graham (GHC) Competitors

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$877.83 +7.66 (+0.88%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:15 PM ET)

GHC vs. SCI, LAUR, DRVN, MCW, PRDO, AFYA, IRS, UDMY, HTZ, and DAO

Should you be buying Graham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graham include Service Co. International (SCI), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Udemy (UDMY), Hertz Global (HTZ), and Youdao (DAO). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.

Graham vs.

Service Co. International (NYSE:SCI) and Graham (NYSE:GHC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Service Co. International has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graham has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Service Co. International has a net margin of 12.19% compared to Graham's net margin of 4.86%. Service Co. International's return on equity of 31.84% beat Graham's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Service Co. International12.19% 31.84% 2.98%
Graham 4.86%5.79%3.21%

Service Co. International pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Graham pays an annual dividend of $6.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Service Co. International pays out 34.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Graham pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Service Co. International has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Service Co. International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Service Co. International currently has a consensus price target of $88.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.44%. Given Service Co. International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Service Co. International is more favorable than Graham.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Service Co. International
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Graham
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Service Co. International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Graham. Graham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Service Co. International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Service Co. International$4.15B2.84$537.32M$3.4423.72
Graham$4.71B0.81$205.29M$51.0717.19

Service Co. International received 199 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.87% of users gave Service Co. International an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Service Co. InternationalOutperform Votes
338
67.87%
Underperform Votes
160
32.13%
GrahamOutperform Votes
139
62.33%
Underperform Votes
84
37.67%

85.5% of Service Co. International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Graham shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Service Co. International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of Graham shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Service Co. International and Service Co. International both had 4 articles in the media. Graham's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Service Co. International's score of 0.97 indicating that Graham is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Service Co. International
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Graham
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Summary

Service Co. International beats Graham on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GHC vs. The Competition

MetricGrahamEducational services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.80B$914.59M$8.38B$19.18B
Dividend Yield0.77%6.52%2.82%3.61%
P/E Ratio17.1911.9118.3341.30
Price / Sales0.811.0415.5017.58
Price / Cash8.0121.1033.4521.28
Price / Book0.981.715.565.32
Net Income$205.29M$20.67M$267.23M$989.88M
7 Day Performance-2.56%-4.33%-1.89%-3.54%
1 Month Performance-4.45%-1.90%0.06%-3.68%
1 Year Performance28.70%-1.73%10.26%12.14%

Graham Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GHC
Graham
2.8226 of 5 stars
$877.83
+0.9%
N/A+29.0%$3.80B$4.71B17.1919,900Positive News
High Trading Volume
SCI
Service Co. International
2.6845 of 5 stars
$85.83
0.0%
$88.50
+3.1%
+20.3%$12.41B$4.10B24.9624,922
LAUR
Laureate Education
3.8713 of 5 stars
$18.95
+0.1%
$18.50
-2.4%
+33.4%$2.86B$1.48B11.9828,900Positive News
DRVN
Driven Brands
2.4354 of 5 stars
$16.88
+0.8%
$17.86
+5.8%
+15.7%$2.77B$2.33B418.5010,600
MCW
Mister Car Wash
3.2027 of 5 stars
$7.44
-1.8%
$9.25
+24.3%
-15.5%$2.40B$973.70M32.966,600News Coverage
PRDO
Perdoceo Education
3.5058 of 5 stars
$27.81
+1.7%
$32.00
+15.1%
+49.7%$1.83B$652.75M13.744,350Positive News
AFYA
Afya
2.6126 of 5 stars
$15.54
-0.6%
$19.38
+24.7%
-27.6%$1.46B$3.19B12.619,680
IRS
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima
1.2386 of 5 stars
$16.75
+1.8%
$13.00
-22.4%
+74.5%$1.30B$323.48B-3.691,401News Coverage
UDMY
Udemy
1.7526 of 5 stars
$8.15
+2.6%
$10.92
+34.0%
-47.1%$1.19B$728.94M-12.601,443
HTZ
Hertz Global
N/A$3.82
-9.5%
N/A-65.7%$1.17B$9.19B-0.4325,000
DAO
Youdao
0.4345 of 5 stars
$7.84
+1.3%
N/A+78.0%$948.01M$5.77B114.294,364Analyst Downgrade
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